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ParticiPat: Exploring the Impact of Participatory Governance in the Heritage Field
Author(s) -
Alonso González Pablo,
GonzálezÁlvarez David,
RouraExpósito Joan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
polar: political and legal anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.529
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1555-2934
pISSN - 1081-6976
DOI - 10.1111/plar.12263
Subject(s) - citizen journalism , corporate governance , political science , multidisciplinary approach , field (mathematics) , sociology , biosphere , environmental ethics , public administration , environmental planning , geography , social science , management , ecology , mathematics , pure mathematics , law , economics , biology , philosophy
This Directions piece presents the project ParticiPat: Patrimonio y participación social: propuesta metodológica y revisión crítica (ParticiPat: Heritage and Social Participation: Methodological Proposal and Critical Review). ParticiPat is a multidisciplinary and multisituated research project involving fourteen researchers from different disciplines and institutions that aims to analyze critically the ubiquitous buzzwords and practices of participation—as well as its key institutions and actors—affecting heritage management in Spain, Portugal, or Mexico. This article advances preliminary results derived from the authors’ case study of a natural park and biosphere reserve in Spain. In doing so, it contributes to the anthropological examination of what has recently been described by different authors as the emergence of a new form of governance based on discourses and practices of participation.